Estou começando o curso de inglês e minha teacher solicitou que fizéssemos uma pesquisa referente a acentuação gráfica. Com a seguinte pergunta: Porque café e resumé têm acentos se na língua inglesa as palavras não são acentuadas? Você poderia me ajudar? Fico agradecida desde já.
Juliana,
A resposta é simples. É por causa da origem das palavras. Café, por exemplo é de origem Francesa. Os Americanos acabaram mantendo a escrita. Se não me engano no Reino Unido eles escrevem coffee. A mesma explicação serve para resumé.
Veja o que eu encontrei na Wikipedia, sobre o tema.
The most common spelling café is the French spelling, and was adopted by English-speaking countries in the late 19th century [1]. The word comes from the name of coffee itself. Café can also be spelt caffè (the Italian spelling), especially if in Italy or if the café is owned by Italians [2]. In southern England, especially around London in the 1950s, the French pronunciation was often shortened to [kæf] and spelt caff [3]. As English words generally lack accent marks, the spelling cafe has also become very common.
I hope that helps.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Café and cafe are common spellings here. American keyboards lack accents unless you configure them for foreign languages. I never saw caffé. Starbucks is the most common coffee house in my area. We usually say let’s get a coffee or let’s go out for a coffee instead of saying let’s go to a cafe. Other words that use cafe are cybercafe and internet cafe.
You don’t have to write the accent on resume, either. A google search shows: Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 14.900.000 para write a resume.
And dictionary.com says
ré·su·mé Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a summing up; summary.
2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.
Also, resume, re·su·mé.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
It’s résumé with two accented e’s. We maintain these accents on foreign words because they violate English rules of pronunciation. Without the accents, this word would be the verb, to resume.